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A85109	The phanatiques creed, or A door of safety; in answer to a bloody pamphlet intituled A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus. Wherein the principles, danger, malice, and designe of the sectaries, are impartially laid open.		1661 (1661)	Wing F402; Thomason E1055_14; ESTC R208007	10,041	16

THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety In Answer to a bloody Pamphlet INTITULED A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS Wherein the Principles Danger Malice and Designe of the Sectaries are Impartially Laid open London Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1661. THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety c. ALthough That Party might very justly be deny'd the common Benefits of Indulgence and Protection that Declares it self against the Common Rules of Religion and Society Yet His Majesty is rather pleas'd by a gentle Interdiction of their Private meetings for the Future to Prevent more Mischief then by a Total Extirpation of the whole Faction so Principled to Punish the Outrages they have already Committed God grant they abuse not This Mercie too as they have done That already by virtue of which they doe at this Instant enjoy their Lives and Fortunes Never was so Foul a Villany Seconded by an Equal Madnesse For a Small Poor Rash Divided Hated and Despised Party to Invade the Numerous Potent Sober and United Interests of the Nation A People that enjoy'd all the Privileges of Englishmen and Citizens without any Provocation either from Necessity or Oppression These are your Men of Tender Consciences your streight-lac'd Christians The Spirits that some Twenty years since were Raised to Call for Justice upon Delinquents and Taught to Tumult for a Gospel-Ministry The Crosse the Surplice and the Common Prayer are an Abomination but Rebellion Blasphemy Murther Sacrilege Spilling of Christian Bloud like Water Playing the Devil in the Name of Jesus This they call Following of the Lamb. Rising against the séed of the Serpent In fine they ascribe to a Divine Impulse the lewdest Actions that ever proceeded from Corrupt Nature To Reason with them were to doe too much honour to their Grosse Wilde Opinions and Time Lost to oppose Argument against pretended Revelation It shall suffice me to expose their Principles and leave the World to judge whether they favour more of Christ or Belial To that end I have extracted the summe of the Phanatique Creed from one of their own Pamphlets Intitled A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS NOw your Attention to the Language of the Saints After an Invocation of the Holy Spirit Thus doth our Libeller discourse of his late Glorious Majesty Page 1. This beginning of Reformation and the honest Party engaged in this Quarrel however by far the less number God did abundantly own and witness too from heaven by opening his Salvation and making bare his own Arm against the late King who was justly out off as a Murtherer see Decl. of Parl. 11. Feb. 1647. Tyrant and Traytor c. Soon after in the same Page he goes on Neverthelesse God hath now taken away all our bancks and permitted this old Enemy to come in upon us as a flood Isa 59.19 And now C. S. the Son of that Murtherer is Proclaimed King of England whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Blood of precious Saints and Martyrs and on the Blood of all our Brethren in the late Wars c. Not to trouble the Reader with his Nauseous Calculations and forc'd Glosses upon Texts in favour of his Delusion my Businesse is in as Few words as may be to shew how Dangerous to the Civil Magistrate and to the Publique Peace People of this perswasion are Their Dreams of Zion and of Babel and their setting Daniel and the Revelation together by the Ears about the Number of the Beast concern not me Those tedious Fooleries omitted as beside my Purpose I passe on to his second Page where speaking of the Royal Party he proceeds in these Terms For as he raised up Pharoah so hath he them to shew his Power in them and that his Name may be declared throughout all the Earth Rom. 9.17 They are brought as Foxes into the Snare and as Birds into the Net We say when we consider these things we are so ●ar from being dejected that we cannot restrain from singing and prais● knowing that this will make much for Gods Honour our good and this Works advantage and they shall not be able to touch one hair of our head nay we were very much confirmed in our hopes of the sudden appearance of this Work by the coming in of their poor wretched King at whom as the Daughter of Zion did at that great boasting Assyrian we laugh and have them in derision And when we consider the great opinions of this year the wonderfull effects it is like to produce the sweet harmony and agreement of the Prophecies the visibility of those things therein foretold to fall in the time of the Witnesses death the great likelihood of the Witnesses Resurrection the great New Covenant-Promise of the spirit made to this Work the wonderfull undeniable signs of the times and how miraculously we have been cut out and preserved for this Work of which we shall speak in a brief Treatise by it self And also having our hearts broken with the Love of Christ and boiling over and having tasted through choice distinguishing grace the Preciousness Power and Love of a soul-endearing Jesus we are mightily awakend and stirred up and that Fire that has been hid under our Ashes will break out into Flames n●d that Fountain of the Rivers of Living Waters into Streams as the bubbling Springs that searcheth the ground and finding entrance gusheth out Our Lives and every thing else that is dear unto us upon a worldly account we despise as a mean thing in comparison of the glory of that Name which is to us as precious Oyntment and we lay all down at the feet of our Lord Jesus resolving if we perish to perish there His Zeal growes now a little warm in these words Page 3. We therefore freely of a ready mind and with a most chearfull heart accounting it an Honour too great for us poor worms who are the meanest of Men the greatest of Sinners and the least of Saints to gird on a Sword for Christ Give up our Lives and Estates unto our Lord King Jesus and to his People to become Souldiers in the Lambs Army abhorring Mercenary Principles and Interests And for this works sake we desire not to love our lives unto the death neither will we ever if we may speak so great a word with reverence in the fear of God sheath our Swords again untill Mount Zion become the joy of the whole Earth a Mountain of holynesse and a habitation of justice untill Rome be in Ashes and Babylon become a bissing and a curse the border of wickednesse and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever there being left unto her neither Name nor Remnant Son or Nephew For that we are not purposed when the Lord shall have

Jacob and suffer then for whom his precious blood was shed to fall before Papists and Cavaliers and prophane drunken damning swearing Idolatrous Adulterous wicked and ungodly men and should suffer the Cause of the Papists of the bloody Family of the Stuarts of the old bloody Popish wicked Gentry of the Nation of the drunken dumb Popish scandalous Clergy to get the upperhand of his own Cause and should suffer all our Reformation to be lost then what would become of his great Name It was because he could not bring them into the good Land will the Enemy say that he has destroyed them in the Wildernesse What will become of his promise made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and their Seed How will the New Covenant sealed with the blood of Christ and the Oath he sware unto David in his holyness be verified Now therefore to come to the matter of our Declaration that we may lay the Ground-work of so great a Building and stir up and provoke our Brethren in all the Countries as also in the City of London to share with us in this honour and be partakers in this work and now to prepare themselves and in all points to be ready in order to a general rendesvouzing on Mount Zions bottom We declare c. Thus far the Saints Call to the Standard Now Their Declaration which consists of Three Heads 1. The Renunciation of Antichristian Magistracy Ministry Tithes c. 2. The Establishment of Civil Liberty upon the Foundation of the Visible Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ 3. The manner of Disposing of the Spoyle which shall be taken in Battel The Substance of their First Proposition runs thus page 9. We contend for a Righteous Magistracy that may be a terrour to evil doers and a praise to them that do well and for a true Gospel-Ministery with their Maintainance And we own and declare our Lord Jesus Christ unto whom and whose Laws we will alone submit as unto him who is the Fountain and Original of all just and lawfull Power to be the Supreme Head and Law-giver of these Natious the alone LEGISLATOR who has right to make and give Laws for the governing of the Commonwealth and who is King of Saints and Nations whose Royal Laws and Precepts must be submitted unto in Church and State and Tyranny Monarchy and Antichristianism destroyed and rooted up in both his Laws and Statutes contained in the Holy Scriptures and remaining in force since his death to be the Law by which these Nations shall be governed and judged and his Saints without respect had to any particular form or judgement on whom shall rest the spirit of councel and wisdom shall be the Administrators thereof or shall have the executive Power So shall we have Magistrates like Job that will be eyes to the blinde and feet to the lame and Fathers to the poor that will break the jaws of the wicked and pluck the spoil out of his teeth Job 29. And we shall be the blessed of the Lord whose habitations shall be full of the blessings of heaven and earth and full of Peace on the foundation of Truth and we shall be the happyest people in the world having the best Laws and the best Governours Deut. 4.6 7 8. Having in a word said enough of the Second Head concerning Civil Liberty I passe to the Third Page 10. which sayes That the chief of the Spoil which shall be taken in Battel and all the Estates which shall be forfeited through Treason and Rebellion shall be brought into one common Treasury according to the Word of God Their Gain shall be consecrate to the Lord and their Substance to the Lord of the whole Earth Mic. 4.13 That it may not feed the Fowles of Prey or enrich and corrupt particular Person as of late but carry on the Work of God with the Army of the Lamb in which every Souldier shall be sufficiently provided for by a certain honourable constant Revenue issuing out of the said Treasury according to his Place Degree Services and Family And for accomplishing and attaining these great and weighty ends we Declare also for the Razing Destroying and perpetual Rooting out of the whole Constitutions and Foundations of the Antichristian Laws and Government of these Nations for the removing of Taxes Tythes Excise and Customes also so far as Oppressive and unlawfull slavish Tenures of Land Oppressions of Landlords Monarchy and Lordship as well in Church as State so also in Cities Societies and Families wherein the Rights of younger Brethren will be vindicated according to Law the nature whereof is Justice Mercy and Equity wherein is no footing for such fictions as this wicked Law teacheth to distinguish between Courts of Justice and Equity and the Nimrod-spirit and Monopolies of elder Brethren unto whom as Kings in the Family the younger Brethren are Slaves and Subjects which is one grand branch of Tyranny and Interest of Monarchy pulled down whose Interest neverthelesse by right of Primogeniture is asserted according to the Kings Law to wit two-fold For the ballance of Lands must be adaequate to the Government of the Common-wealth And as our great desire is to take off all yoaks and oppressions both of a civil and spiritual nature from the necks of the poor People so shall we endeavour to cast the wing of Protection over them their Persons Families and Interests to preserve them from Free-quarter Plunder and all other Injuries and violence whatsoever being resolved first to offer up our own proper Estates for our necessary maintenance For it shall be our great and indefatigable care to preserve an excellent and strict Discipline in our Army that not the least wrong of how small value soever may be done alwaies respecting Propriety so that all Persons other than such as shall oppose and rebel against this righteous Interest may expect the fruition thereof in their peaceable Demeanours of themselves in their lawfull Occasions and Family concerns Our Pamphleter's next Care is the Free Course of the Gospel and he tells us for our comfort page 11. That the Remnant of Jacob shall be as dew from the Lord when Magistrates and Souldiers shall preach the Gospel and teach the people knowledge as well as those appointed unto the Word and Doctrine for this Cheat of the Whore of Rome and Innovation of Antichrist Monopolizing the Work of the Ministry to make a trade of the Gospel and Slaves and Souls of men into their own hands limiting and appropriating it unto Persons in Ecclesiastical Offices shall be taken away And finally We most earnestly desire and call all that love our Lord Jesus Christ and wait for his Kingdom to offer themselves willingly with us in this Work that as in that renowned History Judges 5.9.14 15 16 17 18 23. Out of Ephraim there may be a Root of us against Amaleck after thee Benjamin among thy People out of Machir shall come down Governours and out of Zebulon they that handle the Pen of

the Writer The Princes of ●ssachar with Deborah and Barak on foot in the Valley And if Reuben will continue in his divisions and abide among the Sheepfolds to hear the bleatings of the Flocks Gilead abide beyond Jordan Dan remain in Ships and Asher continue on the Sea-shore and abide in his breaches yet Zebulon and Napthali will be a People that will jeopard their lives unto the death in the high-places of the field and Meroz shall be accursed because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty And our heart being towards you that among all the people offer your selves willingly to the Work we beseech you set all things in order prepare your selves and let the Rich help the Poor that with one mouth we may all say Thine are we David and on thy side thou son of Jesse Peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers for thy God helpeth thee And if any of the old Army which God hath laid aside whose hearts he hath touched do quit their Interests and come to us on this alone lasting Foundation they shall be willingly received From hence to the End of the Pamphlet no lesse then 5. full Pages I find nothing Remarquable or usefull It is a Tedious and Confused Discourse full of Wrested Applications and Evident Disagreements concerning the Two Witnesses in the Revelation The scope of it is to perswade that the Dwellers upon the Earth are as he expresses himself Page 14. the Old Carnal Cavalier Popish Party who Quarrelling with the Witnesses about the Finishing Testimony as page 6. will probably be now destroy'd by the great Day of the Witnesses Rise in this present year 1660. His great Confidence being founded upon Mr. Mede 's Clavis Apocalyptica I shall only relate one material Observation concerning that Gentleman and apply my self then to the Dispatch of what I have to say Mr. Mede otherwise an eminent person was so absolutely perswaded that the King of Swede should destroy Antichrist that so far as possible he cast all his Calculations upon That Subject to That Byasse at last he found his Errour the King was slain and the Impression of that Mistake in the Judgement of his nearest Friends cost that worthy Gentleman his Life This is enough said upon this Subject I shall Endeavour now to make some use of what I have extracted from this Hellish Libell by drawing up in Short the sum of All That done I shall discourse upon it as I see convenient Take now the Fundamentals of this Reprobated Faction with a brief View of their Design The Fanatiques Creed I Do Believe all Governours Governments Laws and Constitutions to be Antichristian save Christ himself his Deputies his Visible Kingdom with his Laws and Statutes of which Laws his Saints shall be the Administrators but without any Literal Direction for upon them shall rest the Spirit of Counsel and Wisdom I do Believe according to the Prophets that in this present year 1660. all Carnal Powers shall be Destroy'd and that the Controversie lying between Zion and Babylon I am bound to List my self a Souldier to the Lamb and called to Rise on Gods behalf to Bind Kings in Chains c. to Raze and Root out all Constitutions Antichristian whatsoever and wheresoever and never to sheath my Sword till the Beast and Whore be destroy'd till Rome lye in Ashes and Babylon become a Hissing and a Curse c. Wherefore let all that have Lives to lay down for their King and Saviour come forth against the Wicked with the Sword and execute upon them the Judgements written As for the Late King he was a Murtherer a Tyrant and a Traytor so is his Son and further an Enemy and Rebell to Christ and we owe no Subjection to that Bloudy Family CAn any Loyal Modest or Christian Ear hear this Language without Tingling Can any Sober or Politique Constitution harbour these Vipers with either Honor or Security I doe confesse if This were but the Madnesse of some Few a man might Charitably impute it either to some unhappy Distemper of Complexion or a more deplorable Delusion But These are people only Frantique in their Opinions Their Actions have a Face of better Reason in Order to the Execution of their Damn'd purposes I grant for Number and for Interest they are not considerable in the Nation and yet what Mischiefs will not Twenty Bold Rogues effect if left at Liberty that are of This Perswasion We need not look far back to see the bloudy Determination of these wretches For my own Part I have but little Interest with those that sit at the Helm If I had more I would employ much of it to These three Ends. 1. To procure a strict severity against Seditious Preachers for 't was the Pulpit first Engaged and Licensed this Rabble tho' for another Interest which having serv'd Long enough they set up for Themselves Nay come to the very point of their late Tumult 't is more then probable that Venner's Preachment blew them into so sudden Action In the next place the Press I would advise should be well Look'd to That Preaches to the Whole Nation at once 'T is True some Pamphlets with the Printers and Authors have been discover'd but there are Others of a more Dangerous though of a smoother Composion that passe as current as if they had an Imprimantur not so much as look'd after to the right End but of Those I intend to say something further ere long Now my Third Care should be to disappoint the Intended Outrages of the Phanatiques And to That Purpose I would move that such of their Principles as are Inconsistent with the Constitution of this Nation and Destructive to it and Own'd for Theirs by themselves in This their Late prodigious Libell might be summ'd up together and offer'd to all suspected Persons and whosoever should Refuse under Hand and before Witnesses to disclaim the said Opinions I would have him commanded to depart the City and upon a Penalty not to be suffered to come within Twenty Miles of London without Licence If it be objected that This would make them Desperate I answer that their Principles render them so more then any thing else can and that while they reteyn Those Principles they are not to be Trusted when they Quit them they are not to be Punished Alas with how much Ease and Safety may this be done I was about to say how hazardous may it prove to leave it undone I am perswaded that the Fear of Danger where none is produces the Greatest Dangers Can it be Imagined that among so many Prostitute Devotes as they reckon themselves there are not some Combinations as well Personal as Publique to Act what I cannot even Conceive without Horrour If so Where but in This Town by whom but by this Faction can such a Villany be Attempted It 's True their Private Meetings are forbidden Yet they meet still in spite of Authority and in contempt of the Proclamation that forbids them If any further Mischief ensue let those that are to Look to 't Answer for 't I have here opposed a Door of Safety to their Door of Hope with the Submission of my Private Thoughts to due and Fayre Correction I am no Publick Minister but one that Truly Loves his Country and that heartily sayes GOD SAVE THE KING As to Their Jewish and Vngratefull Revilings of their Lawfull Prince That Prince who to save the Lives of these Vnmannerly Rebels hath exposed his Own I shall not trouble my self to Reply upon 't His Blessed Father was ended with a Superlative and Fatal Tendernesse The Best of Men and the most Vnhappy of Kings met in the same Person That our present Soveraign may be as Little the Latter as he is Perfectly the Former shall be my Earnest and Concluding Prayer January 15. 1661. FINIS